Kino/Film: Soviet Posters of the Silent Screen

To kick-start the UK/Russia year of culture, this exhibition of film posters explores the use of radical design that commercial artists developed to publicise the burgeoning silent film industry of the Soviet Union during the 1920s. Inspired by the techniques of repetition and montage used in both Russian and foreign films, artists including the brothers Georgii and Vladimir Stenberg, Yakov Ruklevsky and Aleksandr Naumov employed a combination of bold visuals and vivid colours in their poster designs. Screenings of selected seminal films will accompany the exhibition reflecting upon the relationship between the filmmakers and the designers.